Among those golf outings, Manning played Augusta National with John Elway and John Fox. Manning’s best round at Augusta was a 77 in one of the three rounds he played. John Elway (who used to be among the best golfers in the pro-am events among former athletes) shot 79-74-72. Meanwhile, John Fox’s scores went unreported, probably because he kept laying up and playing it safe, willing to take 7’s.

Another offseason highlight was Peyton Manning’s second hole-in-one of his life. The first happened in college. This one happened at Castle Pines in Colorado, while Manning was playing with a random foursome he joined while waiting to play with Elway later in the day. Among the group was a Broncos’ season ticket holder, Tom Harrington, who dresses up in an orange tuxedo for game days. “You’d have thought he made it,” Manning said. “He was that pumped.”